The Participation of the Clergy in Political Parties and Public Political Movements in the White South During the Civil War

Abstract

with a wide range of sources based on situation reports from the Fund of the Political office of the Chairperson of the special Meeting of the Volunteer army, and documentation of the Temporary higher Church administration and the periodicals of the South of Russia. Despite the wide participation of the clergy in political life, the organs of ecclesiastical administration studiously avoided politicization of the Church that would draw it into the political struggle. The Church saw its task only in national unity while preserving the balance of political forces under the authority of the Commander-in-chief as representative of the legitimate government-an ally of the Church in the face of Bolshevism.